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Case report of an infant with severe vitamin D deficiency rickets manifested as hypocalcemic seizures
| العنوان: | Case report of an infant with severe vitamin D deficiency rickets manifested as hypocalcemic seizures |
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| المؤلفون: | Vuletić Biljana, Marković Slavica, Igrutinović Zoran, Radlović Vladimir, Rašković Zorica, Tanasković-Nestorović Jelena, Simović Aleksandra |
| المصدر: | Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, Vol 144, Iss 1-2, Pp 90-93 (2016) |
| بيانات النشر: | Serbian Medical Society, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | vitamin D deficiency, hypocalcemia, convulsions, Medicine |
| الوصف: | Introduction. Hypocalcemic seizures are uncommon in the post-neonatal period. We report an infant with hypocalcemic seizures caused by severe deficiency of vitamin D. Case Outline. A five-month-old male infant was admitted to hospital in March 2013 with recurrent generalized afebrile seizures resistant to clonazepam therapy. At the clinical examination, the infant showed characteristic rachitic signs, so that after a blood sample was taken for laboratory testing, the infant was given infusion of 2 ml/kg of 10% of calcium gluconate at a rate of 0.5 ml/min. The treatment resulted in immediate termination of seizures and normalization of the consciousness of the infant. Blood sample analysis showed extremely low levels of free and total calcium (0.36/1.24 mmol/l) and 25(OH)D ( |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English Serbian |
| تدمد: | 0370-8179 2406-0895 |
| العلاقة: | https://doaj.org/toc/0370-8179Test; https://doaj.org/toc/2406-0895Test |
| DOI: | 10.2298/SARH1602090V |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/3a5da2e3de4f45fbb8cdfd8d0e0cee4aTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.3a5da2e3de4f45fbb8cdfd8d0e0cee4a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 03708179 24060895 |
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| DOI: | 10.2298/SARH1602090V |